"I can assure you..." - Potentially devastating Liverpool exit claim has now emerged

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Liverpool supporters will be desperate for Virgil van Dijk to extend his stay at the club beyond this season, but a worrying exit claim has now dropped. That goes much too far for me.” Van Dijk is in the final year of his current Liverpool deal, with no extension on the horizon as things stand, so there will be understandable speculation about his future.

In quotes cited by TEAMtalk, journalist Carlo Pellegatti has talked up the idea of the 25-year-old sealing a move to Serie A giants AC Milan at the end of this season: “Every now and then, people make fun of me for saying Van Dijk would join, but then they had done the same the January before Zlatan Ibrahimovic arrived. “I continue to say that Gerry Cardinale (Milan’s owner) made clear: ‘Either we get him now by paying or next year for free.’ I said that Van Dijk will arrive at Milan sooner or later.’ “We’ll see if Cardinale changes his mind or not, but I can assure you it was not just a name I pulled out of thin air.” Virgil van Dijk is still too good for Liverpool to lose Van Dijk may now be 35, but the Liverpool captain is still performing at an elite level and remains one of the best central defenders in world football.

Van Dijk appears to be happy at Liverpool, which makes offering him a new deal a no-brainer, and it feels more likely that he would accept an offer than turn it down. And he’s not at the bottom of the list, I can assure you.